Overview
- Jaime Winstone is confirmed as one of 15 celebrity contestants for the 2026 Strictly Come Dancing series, which returns to BBC One and iPlayer on Saturday 19 September.
- Winstone says Taylor Swift told her at Poppy Delevingne’s London birthday party, “Oh my lord, how do you dance so freely?”, and she took that compliment as a decisive sign to sign up.
- She also points to Madonna’s track “Danceteria” and its lyric “everybody get up and dance” as a second personal sign that this was the right year to take part.
- Winstone describes herself as a self‑titled 'raver' with no formal dance training and says she plans to adapt her freeform, voguing‑influenced moves for ballroom routines.
- The series will debut with a new presenting team and several changed professional partners, and producers appear to be using celebrity social moments like Winstone’s story to shape the show’s early publicity and viewer expectations.